Basel Area

The Basel Area is an economic powerhouse and Europe’s most successful life sciences cluster. Access to highly qualified talent and a strong industrial backbone have turned the region into the Swiss business and innovation hub of the future.

In the Basel Area you will find over 700 life sciences companies and 200 research institutions, over 31,000  specialists covering the entire value-chain. Two global pharma leaders, Novartis and Roche, run their global operations as well as key R&D centers from here. Other pharma and biotech companies like Lonza, Abbott, Actelion, Bayer, Syngenta, Idorsia, Basilea, BeiGene, and Moderna as well as a large number of successful startups and spin-offs such as Anaveon make the region the undisputed life sciences leader of Europe. Besides that, the promising healthtech sector is growing fast. More and more newly established companies and startups are focusing on healthcare technologies and are finding their way to the Basel Area. Initiatives like DayOne connect the industry with academia, healthcare providers and government across disciplines to drive innovation and accelerate startups. Another startup-accelerator in the region is BaseLaunch that partners with scientists and entrepreneurs to help launch and grow exceptional biotech ventures developing cutting-edge therapeutics.

Basel Area Business & Innovation is the investment and innovation promotion agency dedicated to helping companies, institutions and startups find business success in the Basel Area (Cantons Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt and Jura). The agency helps people and firms to find the right locations to grow their businesses and offers free assistance in all aspects of establishing a business presence by providing comprehensive consulting services and connections to relevant local players, as well as finding suitable real estate. Quick access to the Basel Area ecosystem through events and in-house experts is also included.